Four Square Poetry Analysis

Four Square Poetry Analysis- Exploring the poem in depth: In your groups answer the questions and write the answers down on your paper to share with the class.

Imagery and Figurative Tone, Attitude: Language:  Words that give the feeling and (Figurative language is language that emotion that the poet wants to uses words or expressions with a express. meaning that is different from the  Which words are chosen to literal interpretation. When a writer create a mood/ feeling? uses literal language, he or she is  Does the tone change in the simply stating the facts as they are.) poem?  Is the poem satirical, ironic, Describing words? thoughtful, sad, painful, happy, Alliteration celebratory, funny? Onomatopoeia  Word choice: Metaphors  Connotations- emotions Similes attached Vivid Language  Denotation- actual meanings of Word Choice words.  Why does the writer use the  Why does the poet choose these tone or feeling in the poem? words?  What effect do they have on the overall poem? Style: Interpretation:  What type of poem is this? Eg.  What is the poet trying to say Lyric, epic, narrative, haiku, free (message)? verse, prose, ekphrasis  Who or what is the poem for?  How many stanzas? Are they a  Was it written for a particular particular type? Eg. Couplets, person? quatrains et al.  Is it about a historical event?  Other considerations: Line  An important event in the life of length, line groupings, are there a person (birth, death, love, metric patterns, mental illness, change of heart, closed/open form upheaval in their life)?  Is there rhyme? A rhyme  Who is the narrator? Who is scheme? speaking and to whom? Under  Note the unusual use of what circumstances is the punctuation, or absence of it narrator speaking?  Why does the writer use these  What does the poem mean to devices or forms? you? Can you relate to the feeling or to the events in the poem? What message, or feeling do you pull from the story/words/form of the poem?